Comedian Tig Notaro arrives at the opening night gala at the Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival last month at the Orpheum Theatre.

Comedian Tig Notaro arrives at the opening night gala at the Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival last month at the Orpheum Theatre.

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Dante, a performer with Vau de Vire Society, stands on stilts wrangling people into a show at The Barbary tent at Outside Lands Music and Art Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Sunday.

Dante, a performer with Vau de Vire Society, stands on stilts wrangling people into a show at The Barbary tent at Outside Lands Music and Art Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Sunday.

Photo: Sarah Rice, Special To The Chronicle

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Magician Jay Alexander performs at the Barbary tent at Outside Lands Music and Art Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 2011.

Magician Jay Alexander performs at the Barbary tent at Outside Lands Music and Art Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 2011.

Photo: Sarah Rice, Special To The Chronicle

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Not all the action at the Outside Lands Festival happens on the big stages. Under its ornate turn-of-the-century Belgian accents, the Barbary is a vaudeville-style variety tent co-curated by the folks at SF Sketchfest that features comedy, improv and everything in between. Alongside popular comics such as Tig Notaro, Pete Holmes and Jen Kirkman, festival fans can catch sets by members of “The Daily Show” news team (Al Madrigal, Hasan Minhaj, Jordan Klepper) as well as what promises to be an over-the-top performance of the Upright Citizens Brigade’s “Asssscat” show with guests Horatio Sanz and Danielle Schneider. By the end of the weekend you’ll be wondering, Elton who?

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